#tent

What others see in you now is just a MILD chapter of you; the WILD version of your brand is yet to be visible. Just dare and will show up! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#brand #branding #dare #dream-big #food-for-thought

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be. ↗

— René Dubos

#individuality #limitation #potential #self #life

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could. ↗

— Charles Erwin Wilson

#better #boss #consistently #could #good

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#folks #get #more #organization #organized

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#attention #been #craves #i #kind

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms. ↗

— Cale Yarborough

#attention #down #everybody #got #i

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#character #circumstance #communicating #content #deal

But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#existentialism #human-dignity #meaning #nihilism #usefulness